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100yearoldcomics · 2 years

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May 25, 1922 Our Boarding House by Gene Ahern

On the one hand, I feel kinda cheated that men's swim shirts fell out of fashion over the last century. On the other hand, they were apparently made out of wool, which just sounds like cruel and unusual punishment to dry off in.

Caption: Buster tries on his wave wardrobe. [ID: Buster stands in front of a vanity mirror, admiring himself as he tries on an old swimsuit. The suit consists of an old moth-eaten wool tank top with a bullseye on the front, worn over a plain white undershirt, with light shorts, dark socks with garters and leather shoes. Mack sits on the bed behind him and Clyde stands to his side, mocking Buster. /end] Buster: Well, how do I look in th' ol' diving tuxedo? Immense, eh? I'd rather strut out on th' beach like this, than look like you guys in your splash suits. Somebody will mistake you for a coupla tall trees an' hang their bathrobes on your shoulder bones! Mack: Yeh, an' when you float, there's always a danger of you getting harpooned. They oughtn't to allow you in th' waves. I'd make you put that bay window in a wheelbarrow an' push it up an' down th' boardwalk! Clyde: I was out with him last summer. He does all his navigating in front of th' lunch counters. He gets more "hot-dog" mustard on his suit than he does water!

#newspaper comics #vintage #history #1922 #our boarding house #transcript available #1920s #tw: fat shaming #tw: fatphobia #swimming

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deadpresidents · 12 days

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After President Abraham Lincoln was shot during a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre, several doctors who were in the audience and also enjoying the play rushed into the Presidential Box and began attending to the President. It was clear that Lincoln's wounds were almost certainly mortal, but the doctors still attempted to save his life. Originally thinking that the President had been stabbed, they soon found that he had been shot behind the left ear and the bullet -- a 43.75 mm ball which had been fired by John Wilkes Booth's .44 caliber Derringer -- had sliced through Lincoln's brain and lodged behind his eye sockets without exiting the skull. When Lincoln's breathing became more shallow, Dr. Charles Leale used his finger to remove blood clots from the wound, which immediately improved Lincoln's respiration.

The doctors decided to move Lincoln from the theater, but felt that the President's condition was far too weak to risk taking him back to the White House, which was several blocks away. A nearby saloon was considered just as unseemly of a place for the President to spend his last hours and likely die in as a theatre, so Lincoln was carried across the 10th Street to William Petersen's boarding house. When they brought Lincoln into the boarding house, they realized that the 6'4" President was too tall for the bed they found for him, so they laid him diagonally upon it.

It was obvious that Lincoln could not survive his wound, so the attending doctors simply tried to keep him comfortable in his final hours by clearing the blood clots in his skull that caused his breathing to become more labored. Throughout the night, the President never regained consciousness, but witnesses said that he looked peaceful as his life was drawing to a close. The only visible evidence of his mortal wound were the bloody pillows that his head rested on and the raccoon-like bruising around Lincoln's eye sockets due to the orbital bones fractured by Booth's bullet after it passed through his brain. Nine hours after he was shot, Lincoln died in Petersen's Boarding House at the age of 56.

Shortly after the President was pronounced dead, his body was placed in a coffin and transferred back to the White House in a carriage. Just a few hours later, one of the residents of Petersen's Boarding House, Julius Ulke, took a photograph (seen at the beginning of this post) of the room and the bed -- including a pillow soaked with the President's blood -- where Lincoln had died earlier that morning.

The room in Petersen's Boarding House where Abraham Lincoln died, pictured in 2007.

#History #Abraham Lincoln #President Lincoln #Death of Abraham Lincoln #Assassination of Abraham Lincoln #Lincoln Assassination #Presidents #Presidential History #Presidential Assassinations #John Wilkes Booth #Assassins #Assassinations #Political History #Civil War #Civil War History #Petersen's Boarding House #Ford's Theatre #Presidential Deaths #Our American Cousin

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absolutebl · 8 months

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What are some BL couples who you DO think could actually have a long haul perfect ending and not burn out two months after the show ends?

(Also if possible, could you drop the show titles aswell? Thanks)

20 BL Couples I Love & Think Would Actually Make it In the Long Run

Ha, yeah I intentionally didn't include the titles in that last post because I was being negative. Since these are positive... here you go!

Advance Bravely

I know right? One from China. But yeah I think they're very opposites attract but still well balanced and suited to each other. Plus "stern but indulgent Daddy + spoiled brat" is a favorite dynamic of mine.

Guardian

He waited 10,000 gd years. It has to work out. Despite censorship.

Old Fashion Cupcake

They both mature enough to be very motivated.

Tokyo in April Is

They suffered for that love. It's an enduring eternal kinda thing.

Cherry Blossoms After Winter

Taesung is NEVER letting him go. Never.

Long Time No See

Not only are they staying together, can you imagine anyone trying to separate them?

Nobleman Ryu's Wedding

I just think they gonna live in obscurity in the middle of the woods with their books forever.

Our Dating Sim

Of course they're gonna last, that was the whole point of the show.

Oh Boarding House

I think they both had to come around to each other with a lot of self-examination as to what it meant for them, their identities, and their lives. That kind of thoughtfulness bodes well for longevity.

(This is an under-appreciated gem. IMHO)

Be Loved In House I Do

Yeah they just so into each other but also adoring but understand each other's quirks. There's no meanness or pettiness to either of them. Double down on affection + chemistry is a good recipe for longevity.

DNA Says Love You

They came back for, and waited for, each other.

HIStory Obsessed

It's in the title. This level of mutually obsessed disfunction only ends in death.

HIStory 4: Close to You

Problematic side couple. Dito the above.

Thousand Stars

It's high romance of the eternal forever kind.

2 Moons Ambassador

They are *that* couple. "I married my college sweetheart and am incandescently happy forever in a disgustingly sappy way" that shouldn't work but does.

My Only 12%

Again, they suffered too much not to make it work. They are basically each other's half, it codependent, but that's the point.

Ingredients

They define domesticity. The true key to most couple longevity is the ability to actually live together.

Oh My Sunshine Night

File these two under the "once he had a taste, its' forever." The seme is too bossy and too possessive for anyone but the one he picked. This one lasts because Rain would MAKE IT last.

Oxygen

Dito the above, only softer.

Until We Meet Again

Of course. I mean, OF COURSE OF COURSE. That's the point. Dean's entire existence would be a failure if they broke up.

Despite my love of the genre I didn't pick any high school BL couples. Even if I think they may have a chance I'm not sure how I feel about that kind of pairing.

I didn't pick ones we know lasted because they showed it to us: e.g. Unintentional Love Story, His, Dear Doctor, My Ride.

There are a few I left off because I think they could last as a couple but the circumstances of their lives and surrounding, means I'm not sure if they would be allowed to, like Not Me, Never Let Me Go, Manner of Death.

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thresholdbb · 18 days

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I've come back to Time and Again... it's a threshold day miracle!

#IT'S NOT DONE YET #yes I've been droning on about it forever and no one cares anymore very boy who cried wolf #apparently I mostly needed a deadline and new lightbulbs #but i remember why I abandoned ship #cosplay updates #time and again cosplay #I've been talking about it for long enough though like damn #not actually threshold for once #but it is our high holiday and usually I would point to a Christmas miracle no matter the time of year #ignore the wrinkles the iron lives on the other side of the house and the ironing board is disintegrating #the colors look so saturated :/#I have a week and part of the roadblock is all the other projects I wanna do #my very cool 40 year old yardstick gave me a splinter #yeah I'm doing another so that I can go meet Kate Mulgrew it's a whole thing

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darlingsart · 6 months

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It’s like 8am and Bri’s stopping by to make sure they’re alive bc she hasn’t heard from either of them in like. a week lmao

I drew some more modern au to de-stress yesterday 💁🏽‍♀️

#patrochilles #tsoa #the song of achilles #briseis #pyrrhus #angies art #modern au #auntie bri is in the HOUSE #shes like. not a single meme has been shared in our gc for days now wtf guys #this is how she finds out Achilles has somehow been allowed to reproduce and she’s baffled #she’s watched him try to drink smth while laying down almost water boarding himself in the process #a man with that few brain cells should not have offspring

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demi-pixellated · 2 months

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Morning Run

#Amongst our Stars #Muriel Harpp #Lekitt Shanoon #Rookie #Juls' OC #OC #MSPaint Draw #thinking that going over your conspiracy board with ur friend while on a jog would be inconspicuous but then she bring her full grown dog #complex emotional and interpersonal processes are not fully in Mu's wheel house

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quietwingsinthesky · 3 months

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journey’s end au where the doctor tries to kick everyone off the TARDIS and they just go, ‘???? no?’ and won’t leave. can’t be stupid and think everyone will leave you when they won’t get out of your house.

#the doctor is simultaneously so happy about this and SO annoyed. get out of his house!!! this is his tardis!!!!#(tentoo voice) OUR tardis. (doctor voice) MY TARDIS!!!!!#rose and martha and donna and jack are literally having a girls night in the same room as this argument #sarah jane was invited but did not join them. autisms.#however mickey and her have been bonding and the doctor feels so betrayed. sarah jane is supposed to be on his side!!!#can’t even complain to the metal dog. k-9 is still busy.#(sarah jane voice) oh i should invite luke and his friends- (doctor voice) NO CHILDREN ON MY SHIP #((tentoo voice. from the other room.) OUR ship)#jack manages to sneak ianto and gwen on board before sarah jane gets the bannerman gang in simply because torchwood is easier wrangled than #literal children (not saying much)#how does gwen manage to sneak rhys on that one time? no one’s really sure. he didn’t stay on very long but it was long enough for jack to #lose a bet.#i think only jackie leaves but NOT before she and tentoo and rose have established interdimensional facetime so that she can phone her #daughter and her son-in-law and her guy-who-her-son-in-law-is-cloned-from #(doctor voice) donna i need to erase ur memories ur brain will explode otherwise (rose from across the room) hey didnt i absorb something #that would explode my brain once. i still have my memories. (donna voice) YEAH DOCTOR CARE TO EXPLAIN THAT????#donna metacrisis is solved because jack says ‘fuck it let me eat the metacrisis somehow it probably wont kill me’ and then he glows for like #a week but he’s fine.#he is literally never getting rid of any of them. get found family-ed idiot #(god wait funniest fucking thing if end of time happens here and the master’s plans are completely derailed because he gets tackled by seven #different companions. kicking him while he’s on the ground while the doctor goes D:)#doctor who #tardis family au

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100yearoldcomics · 1 year

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August 12, 1922 Our Boarding House by Gene Ahern

Listen, gayboy.

Caption: Saturday night. [ID: Clyde, Buster and Mack stand by the side of a lake, silhouetted by the sun setting over the water. Mack sits on a rock, Clyde leans on a tree and Buster stands without assistance. /end] Clyde: So this is what they call Saturday night up in this rummy reservation, eh? Ha-ha, well, it's about as tame as a bronze lion. Th' only thing goin' on up here is th' Northern lights an' I'd swap 'em to see a trolley come off th' wire back in town! Buster: Lis'en, gayboy. All that misses you back in town tonight is th' bath tub. Soak that in. Why say, I can make you think it's your regular Saturday night by giving you a shine an' a wild cigar. That's your dizzy pace! Mack: Scratch me out too on this yawn ranch. This back to nature act is th' soap oar. I'd rather run to a false alarm in town tonight than have a front row seat for a forest fire up here.

#newspaper comics #vintage #history #1922 #our boarding house #transcript available #1920s #summer vacation #the great outdoors #sunset #saturday night #camping #lakeside #gayboy

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corvidaedream · 11 months

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my dad is undergoing cancer treatment and they gave him adavan, and on the way home from the hospital my mom stopped for some groceries and left her very very high husband in the car, and during that time he wandered into the store, shoplifted several fancy cheeses, and wandered back to the car to eat them.

#messages from the ouija board #my mom started the story w 'remember when [childhood friend] was going through chemo and she wandered into our house and sang to the cat?#thats the medication they put ur father on.'#im crying from laughing though like she told it really well but also??#my dad wandered into the Nice Grocery Store by the hospital and just stole expensive cheeses. what a crime!

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absolutebl · 1 year

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10 BLs from 2022 that I’m Most Likely to Rewatch

(and some I already have)

Old Fashion Cupcake

Minato's Laundromat

Takara & Amagi

First Love Again

Cherry Magic the movie (I think I missed stuff)

Oh! Boarding House

About Youth

DNA Says Love You

Cherry Blossoms After Winter

Semantic Error (movie, again)

2022 & earlier BLs I’ll be rewatching for nefarious purposes

Roommates of Poongduck 304

Happy Ending Romance

Love Class

Oh My Assistant

To My Star 2: Our Untold Stories

Oh My Sunshine Night (to put together a RainPayu cut)

KinnPorsche (to put together a VegasPete cut)

My Esports Genius Brother

Restart After Come Back Home

TharnType

Nobleman Ryu's Wedding (if I can find the darn thing)

Love Sick 2 (if the new hardsubs get completed)

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blujayonthewing · 4 months

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a fundamental problem with me is that I do like people and I like being around other people and I like hanging out with my friends but I also almost exclusively like doing completely solo activities, which isn't, you know, how anyone expects or wants socializing to work

#the last time justin and I went over to our local friends' house for a game night I opted out of the board game #which I almost always WANT to do but almost never actually do because what inevitably happens is #that my good kind loving friends are good and normal humans and keep checking in to Make Sure I'm Good (am I SURE?)#and I'm just sitting there knowing that just sitting there is ruining the vibe and I'm making everyone uncomfortable #they ended up playing a game with max 4 players so they didn't need me! I was drawing and perfectly happy!#for ME that's the ideal but everyone else would be happier if I acted normal. you know.#even as a kid I never liked inviting a single friend over because the pressure to Think Of Something To Do felt so high...#normal people want to Do Stuff With You and I am-- in many many ways-- inevitably disappointing #'ooh have you tried [MMO version] of [cozy little solo game genre you love]?' I don't want that! why would I ever want that!!#and how do I express this without being seen as an anti-social no-fun bitch!!#it's not even a 'nobody likes me' problem it's literally a 'people DO like me' problem-- if nobody liked me I wouldn't disappoint them #can't be a shitty friend if you don't have any friends! but ALAS.#a lot of the ways that I naturally am are just... incorrect #about me

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white-poppie · 5 months

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#i am so drained and overworked right now #I am running on 5 hours of sleep for the past month #newspaper lauch work of co editor in chief #working on our cultural fest with house competition #piling academics #portfolio building #Projects #running our school's editorial board's instagram account #doing editing for our school instead of our digital editor #writing my novel #keeoing up with tumblr ffs #runnin g my instagram account #all upon that I have such a bad throat infection #white poppie talks

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missyedits · 1 year

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